BBC Worldwide is exploiting the BBC show Strictly Come Dancing (Dancing With The Stars) through a premium partnership with Stardoll, the virtual doll dress-up site for kids.

The BBC iPlayer iOS app has been downloaded 1.1m times in the week since it was updated to run on Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch as well as iPad, says Daniel Danker, the broadcaster’s general manager of programmes and on demand.

Two of the biggest global news brands are gaining a bigger U.S. foothold - but, while one has finally broken in to the TV mainstream, the other is making greater headway online.

Lonely Planet’s new San Francisco-based mobile startup has gone live with its flagship mobile travel guide app Wenzani, which paidContent first reported about in September.

Today’s big round of cuts announced by the BBC—it will lose some 2,000 jobs, order relocations for others, and make big changes to the programming schedule in order to cut 20 percent from the BBC budget—largely left digital assets at the corporation untouched. But that’s mainly because the BBC had…

The UK’s leading TV catch-up brand is having a weird global launch. After debuting on iPad only in 11 European countries this July for €6.99 a month or €49.99 a year, it will now go to Australia.

How does the world’s biggest travel guide book publisher, 39-year-old Lonely Planet, pack its bags for the digital era? “Relentlessly,” CEO Matt Goldberg says.

Lonely Planet has created a separate technology startup in San Francisco to develop next-generation social mobile travel guides together with competitors.

BBC Worldwide is make episodes of Top Gear available to Facebook users at a cost of 93p. The BBC’s commercial arm has developed a video-on-demand app for Facebook that will allow users of the website to rent a limited number of Top Gear episodes using Facebook Credits.

Finally, closure on the long-running question of what would happen to the BBC‘s magazine business, the biggest publisher of subscription magazines in the UK: commercial division BBC Worldwide has agreed on a multi-faceted sale of its assets, covering 34 magazine titles, to the private equity group Exponent. BBCWW has also…

Mark Thompson had set an August deadline, and now BBC Worldwide has finally released its global version of the iPlayer catch-up TV service.

Facebook Credits today got another vote from the media industry as a currency for paid digital content: the BBC’s commercial arm, BBC Worldwide, announced that from this Wednesday it would start to offer episodes of its popular Doctor Who television series on Facebook, some before they have even been released…

Doctor Who and Fawlty Towers will be made available to Europeans armed with an iPad from later this year, as the BBC begins the process of introducing its international iPlayer to overseas audiences.

It does to TV rights holders, but for consumers—it depends what they’re watching, panelists at the pcMobile 2011 conference. Jon Dube, past president of the Online News Association and formerly an *ABC* News digital exec, noted that in the U.S., networks use 30 percent of the bandwidth. So is there…

[Detail of how Lonely Planet is moving its digital team out of Melbourne] Hi everyone, Today we are making some changes to our organisation that will affect everyone at Lonely Planet, directly or indirectly, in order to reposition us to return to profitability while staying true to what we do…

Lonely Planet is making around 15 percent of its staff redundant, including relocating its online operations from Melbourne to London, in a bid to avoid its earnings getting walloped by international currency exchanges.

Nick Ascheim is leaving his post as the Associated Press’s Digital GM to join BBC Worldwide Americas to help the company chart its mobile strategy and develop unspecified new products. His title will be SVP, Digital Media, where he’ll manage the broadcaster’s American website and mobile systems. The AP has…

The BBC’s international iPlayer iPad app will cost less than $10 (£6.13) a month when it launches later this year, according to director general Mark Thompson.

BBC Worldwide may now own all 100 percent of Lonely Planet, but the travel guide’s ultimate flight path is not yet necessarily set out.